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U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein failed to win the official endorsement of the California Democratic Party as she seeks her fifth term, another sign that the party is divided over how best to battle Republicans in Washington. Democratic activists were more eager to back her primary challenger, state Senate leader Kevin de Leon, who is touting himself as a fresh face with stronger progressive credentials, particularly on immigration.
Computer networks owned by a Russian entrepreneur accused in the infamous anti- Trump dossier don't contain any IP addresses used by Moscow to hack Democrats' computers, the entrepreneur's attorney says in a rebuttal to a BuzzFeed court filing. Val Gurvits of Boston Law Group lodged a libel lawsuit against BuzzFeed on behalf of XBT Holding CEO Aleksej Gubarev in a federal court in Florida in April.
When Andrew Cilek entered a Lutheran church in Minnesota to cast his vote during the 2010 election, he was surprised when the poll worker told him he couldn't vote because he was wearing a T-shirt with the emblem of a local tea party group, and had a button asking for poll workers to check his I.D. He kept pressing to be allowed in, and eventually the media showed up to cover the test of wills. He was finally allowed to cast his ballot, but poll workers took down his name and information.
Last month, author Michael Wolff nearly ruined the good thing he had going by insinuating, absent any evidence, that Nikki Haley was having an affair with President Trump. At the Washington Post, Erik Wemple points out Wolff has finally backed off that claim : After several minutes of interrogation about a central drama surrounding his new book, Michael Wolff said this: "I will just clean this up.
As vehicles line up at the Border Patrol's checkpoint a half-hour drive's north of the US-Mexico border, its agents have around 10 seconds to check each driver and decide which few they will stop for additional inspection. It's a situation challenged constantly by smugglers, sometimes with deadly consequences.
In this May 12, 2017, file photo, former first lady Michelle Obama smiles while speaking at the Partnership for a Healthier American 2017 Healthier Future Summit in Washington. The former first lady tweeted Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018 that her memoir, one of the most highly anticipated books in recent years, is coming out Nov. 13, 2018, and is called "Becoming."
Registration will allow you to post comments on newstimes.com and create a newstimes.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Mueller gets another witness to flip, charges pile up on Manafort, and Democrats release their memo - here's the latest in the Russia investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller secured another potential witness this week in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein failed to pick up the endorsement of her own party back in California, where the four-term Democrat is running for another stint in the Senate. In fact, delegates at the California Democratic Party's convention failed to reach a 60% majority for any U.S. Senate candidate, or anyone running for statewide office.
President Donald Trump wants to hold his proposed military parade on Veterans Day, a date that would increase significance to the first public U.S. military procession since the Gulf War's end. Trump directed Pentagon planners to organize a Nov. 11 parade in the nation's capital, according to an unclassified memo National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster wrote Tuesday.
An Iraqi court sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining the Islamic State, an Iraq judiciary official confirmed Sunday. It is the latest round of harsh punishment handed down in connection with ongoing trials of hundreds of foreign women detained since August.
The human-egg hybrid that is CNN "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter wants us to take a trip with him to "President Trump's Fantasyland." Is there no Brian Stelter fantasyland where a supposed media reporter feverishly forgets that his job is to cover the media - and instead expresses his puke-y hatred and disgust for President Trump ? I'm thankful for only one thing today - that Brian hasn't attempted the male facial hair trend that Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker has been trying as of late - skimming his jaw line with whiskers.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's confident Republicans will triumph at the polls in November, while at the same time acknowledging that midterm elections are often tough for the president's party. The Journal Sentinel reports that Ryan delivered an upbeat message to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Republicans Saturday night and said of the GOP nationally, "We're going to win."
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has failed to win the official endorsement of the California Democratic Party as she seeks her fifth term in Washington. Party activists were more eager to throw their support behind her primary challenger, state Senate leader Kevin de Leon.
A violent storm system with relentless rains and fierce winds that pounded the southern and central U.S. over the weekend could lead to treacherous flooding in the days ahead. The system that stretched from Texas to the Canadian maritime provinces left a path of destruction as it cut eastward Sunday: Homes were leveled, trees uprooted, cars demolished.
Support for gun control is overwhelming after Florida's school shooting, but confidence in Congress taking action is overwhelmingly pessimistic, according to the latest USA Today poll. Just 19 percent believe the odds are "excellent" or "good" for Congress taking action, while a 76 percent majority rate the possibly of change as "fair" or "poor."
Sen. Pat Toomey said Sunday some Senate opponents of gun reform are "reconsidering" their position on background check legislation - a hopeful sign as the Pennsylvania Republican tries to revive a failed 2013 measure. "The president's expression of support for strengthening the background check system is constructive," Toomey said.
Friends, Now, more than ever, independent journalism has become the last firewall against government and corporate lies. Yet, with frightening regularity, independent media sources are losing funding, closing down or being blacked out by Google and Facebook.
As vehicles line up at the Border Patrol's checkpoint a half-hour drive's north of the U.S.-Mexico border, its agents have around 10 seconds to check each driver and decide which few they will stop for additional inspection. It's a situation challenged constantly by smugglers, sometimes with deadly consequences.
In the battle of the classified memos in the House Intelligence Committee, both sides have now had their say on whether the FBI and Justice Department acted inappropriately as they began investigating President Donald Trump's ties to Russia. A Democratic memo that was declassified Saturday, with sections blacked out and after weeks of delays, aimed to defend the FBI and Justice Department's conduct.